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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Russia halts gas supplies to Finland as payments row with the west escalates

Pipes at the Gasum plant in Imatra, Finland
Pipes at the Gasum plant in Imatra, Finland. Photograph: Vesa Moilanen/Lehtikuva/AFP/Getty Images

Russia has halted providing natural gas to neighbouring Finland, which has angered Moscow by applying for Nato membership, after the Nordic country refused to pay supplier Gazprom in roubles.

Gazprom Export has demanded that European countries pay for Russian gas supplies in roubles because of sanctions imposed over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, but Finland refuses to do so.

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